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conservation should be established on the basis of fees for 

 fishing in international waters - in effect, the global commons - 

 to finance the necessary means to ensure fisheries conservation 

 and marine habitat protection for straddling and highly migratory 

 fish stocks on both the high seas and within EEZs. 



The issue of consistency - the extent to which conservation 

 measures should apply throughout the range of a stock both on the 

 high seas and within EEZs - was an issue of great contention at. 

 the UN Conference in July. The issue largely centered on a debate 

 over the relative rights of coastal and distant water fishing 

 states with respect to high seas fishing on straddling - UNCLOS 

 Art 63 (2) - and highly migratory - UNCLOS Article 64 - fish 

 stocks. Yet the debate was primarily one of allocation - who gets 

 the fish - with insufficient emphasis placed on conservation and 

 the protection of marine habitat. 



Greenpeace takes the position that for straddling and highly 

 migratory fish stocks, a consistent conservation and management 

 regime is needed throughout the ranges of the stocks as a 

 safeguard against overexploitation and other adverse 

 environmental effects. For purposes of the UN Conference, . as well 

 as in establishing a conservation and management regime on 

 regional levels, any elaboration of coastal state and distant 

 water state rights regarding fishing on straddling and highly 

 migratory fish stocks and fishing on the high seas must, more 

 importantly than dealing with "rights", clearly enhance those 



